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 520 CRAWFORD Balcarres, being, a few weeks afterwards, cr. Lord Lindsay of Balcarres [S.].(''') In 1641, also, he was made P.C. [S.] ; and (with Argyll, Glencairn, and Loudoun) Joint Treasurer of Scotland; an extraordinary Lord of Session 1641-49, and again 1661-64. By act of Pari., July 1644, confirmed by the King in 1646, the Earl of Crawford-Lindsay, as he was now styled, was made High Treasurer [S.], and in Jan. 1644/5, President of the Pari. [S.]. He acquired the revenues of at least 5 Bishoprics, and obtained a charter, I Mar. 1 648 (invalid as not proceeding on resignation and Royal authority), with a view of extending the Earldom of Crawford to his own heirs general. He (with Hamilton and Cassillis) was one of those sent to the King at Newcastle, in Sep. 1646, to urge him to accept the English propositions. After this he appears to have befriended the King's side, was deprived of his offices 13 Feb. 1649, and was promoting the intended march of Charles II into England, when he was taken prisoner by the Parliamentary Col. Alured (together with the Earls Marischal and Leven), 28 Aug. 1651, at Alyth, co. Forfar, carried to Dundee, the Tower of London, and Windsor Castle, and not released till Mar. 1660. He had been specially excepted from Cromwell's "Act of grace and pardon," 14 Apr. 1654. In 1661 he was restored as High Treasurer [S.], and President of the Council. P.C. [S.] again 13 Feb. 1660/1, sworn 5 Sep. 1661. Original F.R.S. 20 May 1663. In 1663, scrupling to take the declaration and renounce the Covenant, he resigned his office in favour of his son-in-law, the Earl of Rothes [S.], and retired to his home at the Struthers. He m., about i630,('') Margaret, 2nd da. of James (Hamilton), 2nd Marquess of Hamilton [S.], by Anne, da. of James (Conyngham), 7th Earl of Glencairn [S.]. She was living 1666. He d. at Tyninghame, 1678, in his 8ist year.('') XVIII. 1678. 18. William (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford, Earl OF Lindsay, i^c. [S.], s. and h., who, owing to the incum- brances charged by his father and others on the estates, " disponed " them to trustees for his creditors, which trust lasted for above 70 years. ('^) He was b. Apr. 1644; was a principal leader in the Presbyterian party ;(") Pres. of the Council [S.] 1689-93; Pres. of the Pari. ; a Commissioner of the Treasury 1 689-92, and for settling the government of the church. P.C. 3 June 1690. if) As, however, in the Pari, which met directly afterwards he opposed the Royal measures, the patent was "kept up and did not pass the Seals" till 13 Nov. 1 64 1, when the King allowed it, "conform to the warrant in 1633," at a time when he heaped honours and offices upon the Covenanters, "according to the capacity and ability they had of doing him mischief." (Clarendon's History of the Rehellio):). 1^) His 1st da. was bap. 1 Sep. 1631 (St. Andrew's Register). V.G. i^) Burnet describes him as "a sincere but weak man, passionate and indiscreet." V.G. (^) By the act for abolishing heritable jurisdictions, 1747, the trustees for the creditors on the Crawford-Lindsay estates got ^^3,000 for the bailliary of the Regality of St. Andrew's, North of Forth, in full of their claim for _^4,ooo. (') "The zealoustest man in the world for the Revolution." {^Macky).